At my work one of our paint filters in the exhaust docks plugged and purged wrong and sprayed everyones car in the parking lot. After the company sent some cars in to be detailed \ buffed out they looked like sh*t.

How hard would it be to buff out overspray? I have like 4 layers of wax on my car so I am hoping I can just buff off all the wax and it will take the paint with it...




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I would try using a Clay Bar first. That takes a lot of contaminants out of paint.



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Yes as Kri has mentioned use a clay bar to remove overspray, if clay doesn't work you will have to wet sand it.

And you will want to buff the vehicle after either of those anyway.

Got that clay stuff. Took off some of the over spray, but there is still alot left. While I was at Napa I picked up this stuff called rubbing compound, it is like a lotion with sanding beads in it. It says that it is good enough to 2000grit paint applications. Would that work for the wet sanding that was suggested?




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Don't use rubbing compound if you don't know how to use it or you will scrath the paint.

The clay bar should have got all the overspray off. Used it on my truck few years ago once they finished the house construction. Took off every single spec of over spray.

It got all of it off except on my from bumper for some reason. Possible soaked in to the plastic\fiberglass? I dunno, but I used that clay three different times after I stripped the wax and prolly some of the clearcoat off and it's still there...




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you should try some surface prep solution, get it at any auto parts store....try it on a small area first to make sure it won't hurt your paint. definately stay away from the rubbing compound though.


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When one says "wet sanding" what exactly is that if it is not the same thing as the rubbing compound? It is simply getting the area wet and then sanding with normal sand paper or is it more involved?




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Reject wrote:At my work one of our paint filters in the exhaust docks plugged and purged wrong and sprayed everyones car in the parking lot. After the company sent some cars in to be detailed \ buffed out they looked like sh*t.

How hard would it be to buff out overspray? I have like 4 layers of wax on my car so I am hoping I can just buff off all the wax and it will take the paint with it...

if you're having trouble removing it yourself, have you tried talking to them about taking it to a different body shop? if not try your insurance after which they'll collect from the company. my mother had something similar about 10 years ago where her caprice was one of 20 cars sprayed with heavy crude oil and the company paid for the cleaning when she took it to her detailer. it was a used car she used for driving to work, it had what i thought was a grey/off white top until they cleaned it--turned out to be bright white.



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Yeah, tried that. They sent it in to some half a$$ed cleaning place that said they would buff out the paint for $50.00 a car. Tell you what kind of job they did for $50.00 a car? Well needless to say, it wasn't the best. The company refuses to get it done by another business and my insurance agent said it wounld't be worth it with a $1,000 deductable.

So... Me screwed...




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wet sanding is just what it sounds like, using sand paper (2000 grit or higher I suggest, if you have wet sanded before get the 3000 grit paper from Meguiar's, that way it is less likely you will burn your paint.) and keeping the area you are sanding wet(this keeps the friction and conducted friction heat lower and on the surface, instead of tranferring into the deeper layers of paint).

You will have some small scratches left on the paint after you finish wet sanding, you will then have to use a buffer to remove those, I suggest using Pink Luster to shine as well as remove scratches, then put a nice coat of wax on, depending on what look you are going for carnuba will work for but for the ultra wet look use whats called butter wax(butter wax wears off inna few days but man it looks nice).

cullinite (or is it collinite) is way better. i use it on my car and i dont even have to wash my car i just rinse it and all the dirt and bug guts glide right off my car.

LOL, wow, I am suprized anyone knows about collinite.

I havent heard about collinite in years, used to use it in the steel mill.

Only bad thing about it is, it's still a carnuba based wax... so it can only be so good.

It does last longer then most other carnuba products, but butter wax will out shine it 400 times over. but i do suggest that everyone use Collinite every 6 months or so.

They have several different auto/marine/industrial product lines now, I havent tried some of the new ones...

I will order some and post back with more news on the other products they sell.

I would try using polishing compound- 3m, fine cut....

Unless you can figure out crazy way to actually fark your paint up with it, you'll be fine...
Ive used it on my cars, friends cars, etc etc... It makes the paint look great, while removing light scratches and scuffs.. Ive never done a whole vehicle with it, but used it numerous times on spots, blemishes..

Just rub it into the paint and buff it off.


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